Conflict Between Parents And Children In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

The struggle with the conflict between parents and children is something that almost occurs to several teens, especially those who drift into a culture outside of their parents’. In “Two kinds,” by Amy Tan excerpt from The Joy Luck Club, is an example of the constant conflict between a strict and overbearing parent, and their child. The main character is a young Chinese- American daughter, who childhood was affected by her overbearing Chinese mother. Throughout the whole story, Jing Mei and her mother had a numerous amount of conflict, which escorted to the central conflict. Jing Mei and her mother are like an apple and oranges, her mother is an imperious and an overbearing Chinese mother. While Jing Mei was an apathetic American upbringing. Jing Mei’s mother is imperious, she was so determined for her daughter to be a prodigy in something. Jing’s mother would challenge Jing with impossible questions.

Jing’s mother believes that her daughter should do want she tell her to do. Jing believes that she should be applied to do what she wants and be her own person. Jing’s childhood was destroyed because of her mother culturally believes. Jing’s mother was domineering, she would give a solution that was impossible to answer or do. Jing’s mother would always force her to do things she did not want to do and when she did not get the answer she wanted she would get furious. Jing’s mother was ambitious, she would not have a defiant child. If Jing refuses to follow orders that her mother would assign, her mother would fuss and get physical with her. Jing wanted to be independent, she wanted to do what she wants and be her own person which, was complicated for her to do having an arrogant mother. Jing was sluggish toward the things she does because she was not interested in it. Constant conflict will occur when parents have one pacific cultural and their child is an upbringing of another